Book Information: Monkey and the Tiger, the

The Monkey and the Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the Judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume his new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood and marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits. Here, Dee confronts a ghostly apparition on a balcony and manages to solve the mystery.